Learning From Mistakes

We had an event a few days ago where we gave all our students T-shirts. I designed them and I was going for a simple look, but they didn't turn out very well, and believe me my students let me know: These were some of their comments.

"Who designed these shirts, are they on crack?"
"Why are these so plain?"
"Seriously Jeremy, just let me design the shirts next time."
"Last years were way better"
"This was a great event except for the shirts"

I used evaluation forms and everything got high marks except for the shirts. They didn't even try to make their comments sound nice they just destroyed the shirt design.

All this to say it's important to learn from mistakes. It's also important to give things away that you have no gift at doing. Our next shirt will be for Camp and I've already asked someone else to design it. That way they can get the blame if it turns out awful.